Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train (is bound for Glory) 

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She always sang for the Father! ❤

No doubt at all

Who's the daddy?

Amen

Why aren't you a Christian? I ask sincerely.

Revelation tells us the things not permitted into the New Jerusalem. The point being that we all must be under the blood of Jesus the Lamb of God. Or we aren't clean enough

Exactly she is singing for Jesus and wants the people to hear the message

God damn right.

Amen brother

The older I get the more I get into standardized RocknRoll.

Cap!

She's awesome. I'm so happy my 30+ daughter loves this lady and appreciates her talent. I wish the whole world would listen to her.

Indeed he is

Elvis was influenced by her singing style and talked about her being an influence. Little Richard was even more influenced by her singing. But she didn't play guitar like Chuck Berry until after Chuck started playing guitar that way. And she never sang songs about the teenage subculture, which is one of the defining characteristics of early rock & roll.

The Elvis movie released in May-June 2022 features Yola as Rosetta ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OOEsowxwxSc.htmlsi=vGs9fNO08VEtBmcF

R&R up to 1963 R&B up to mid 70s

My 28 year old daughter listens to etta James and older music too

@@michaelclark9762 however, it does have her influence

Cool, until the late 60s-early 70s I was born in 1958..and knew Rock, wasnt Rock n Roll Although it was CALLED such

Fornications

@@deusvult8251 occult symbols Perhaps with some fornication But over most kids heads

Let’s thank RU-vid and its almighty algorithm.

Thanks and Praise! \o/

That’s why I’m here. Having health problems and she keeps me hanging on.

¿Y por qué tardaron tanto?....

​@@patricioramirezcarmona8302 se iba a desacreditar a muchos , pero cada aporte importa y esta mujer le dio forma 🤙🏼

I could be wrong but I thought she was dubbed the godmother of rock and roll. I'd be glad to know which is correct or perhaps both are correct. Great artist either way!

Absolutely!!!

i don't know if u read the lyrics or heard em right but its a clean train that's bound for Glory! it don't pull sinners so if u want to ride it u got to be clean! if u need to get clean just ask Jesus to come into ur heart and make Him the Lord of ur life!

Luke Blin think again! You learned that lie from mainstream doctrines. That's right, mainstream Christianity teaches lies mixed with truth. Practicing sinners WILL MISS OUT ON GLORY.

​@@braznartn5176 unrepentant sinners get absolutely fair exacting Justice ✝️ ♾️🔥

What makes the movement and revolution of Jesus different from all other faiths and creeds throughout all human history is that they long and seek and stretch and pull to climb the mountain to reach their Gods,try to purify themselves, wash themselves in that river Ganges. Jesus, was God coming to us. He came down to us, to the simple, the uneducated, the poor, and He meets us right where we are, in the muck, in our most shameful sins, and that’s where He does his best work. Yes, this train is bound for glory, Hallelujah! But we are sinful, broken, humans, and we love Jesus! ❤

Yeah

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I think she is saying 'wankers', which is not part of Woodie Guthrie's lyrics.

Wankers had a slightly different shade of meaning in the UK back then.

She's actually singing 'winkers' if you listen carefully.

@@johnhughes3796 Nice try, but it's definitely "wankers", which the British people she's singing for pronounced that way.

@@johnhughes3796 And if you look, She's winking furiously at the same time.

What a voice.i mean she's a beast.thanks for posting

She's probably more appreciated by the general public in the U.S. now than since the early 1950s. She was big in Europe, as were many American Blues, R&B, and Gospel singers in the early 1960s.

They don't call her the "Godmother of Rock and Roll" for nothing.

She is rightly called the godmother of rock and roll. She influenced an awful lot of the greats who started in the 1950s and 1960s, including using such tools as distortion.

She actually started it. Chuck Barry could’ve learned a thing or two. She was an innovator and trail blazer. God bless her

This song goes back a lot further than her. It had already been around forever when it was first recorded in the 1920s.

@@docrofo2573 She was an impressive, powerful, and very influential vocalist who sang mostly gospel songs. But she wasn't a rock & roller before Chuck Berry and the Memphis Rockabilly artists like Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, etc. were. She most assuredly did NOT invent Rock & Roll. Chuck Berry did, with a lot of help from folks like Fats Domino and New Orleans Doo-Wop, Ray Charles' proto-soul music, James Brown's "everything is a drum" mentality, Hillbilly guitar licks, and the Jump Blues of Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, and Elmore James [who electrified country delta blues combined with West Coast jump blues to create "West Side (Chicago)" Blues]. Listen to her early records from around 1939-1950 and they sound nothing like Rock & Roll. The music sounds more like Mahalia Jackson in the 1950s or big band numbers from the WWII era. From 1950 on she was beginning to incorporate some of the same influences that Chuck built upon, but they weren't nearly as explicitly obvious in her recordings as what Chuck was doing by 1955. One of the primary elements of Rock & Roll is lyrics aimed at teenagers. Chuck Berry was the first to combine R&B rhythms, Hillbilly (later called "Country" music) guitar licks, and teen-targeted lyrics. Some historians even give him credit for inventing the concept of "teenagers" as a cultural phenomenon separate from "children" and "adults". Before Rock & Roll in the mid-1950s, kids were considered children all the way until they reached adulthood, having very little independence. The prosperity of the 1950s and the proliferation of automobiles among the middle class changed that. "With his instinct for the ­historical moment, alertness to the fads and folkways of his young fans, delight in an unprecedented American prosperity, matchless verbal facility and autobiographical recall, Berry played a major role in inventing teendom itself - in augmenting its self-awareness and turning it into a ­subculture." - From 'Rolling Stone' magazine following his death in 2017. Rosetta Tharpe's singing style was adopted by some early rock & rollers (most notably Little Richard and Elvis Presley), but she did not have a guitar style similar to Chuck until the late 1950s, well after 1955 when Chuck Berry burst upon the scene with 'Maybelline' [which was a rewrite of the popular Hillbilly song 'Ida Red' with new lyrics aimed at teenagers] and followed it with a string of hit after hit from 1955 to the early 1960s. Tharpe's guitar style changed to incorporate Berry's guitar sound into her own around 1958-59.

This is from the 1960s. The guitar she's playing is a model that wasn't made by Gibson until 1961.

She insisted that the gospel songs were gospel songs.

Audience participation not required!

Aretha and Gladys were the Sister Rosettas of their day.

@@michaelclark9762 Yes, Sister Rosetta inspired many people.

Amen to your comment!!!

Before funk/rap And funk, back then, and now Meant body odor

Little Richard was even more influenced by her in 1947 when he was a concession worker at the city auditorium in Macon, GA and she did a show there.

This song was older than she. It has been around much longer than the technology that allows audio recordings. It's origins are lost in the mists of time. The first recording of it was "Dis Train" recorded in 1922 by the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette at the dawn of the recording industry.

Just give in to YHWH brother and get on this train. Jesus is the Engineer of engineers and will get you straight to the stop you need to make.

That's the point, it includes everyone as rock and rollers.

Still in 2023!

​@@pxn748 yeah bro...still 2023 and for the eternity....

It's running faster now in 2023.

This isn't the origin, which has been lost in the mists of time. The earliest recording of the song was in 1922 by the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette at the dawn of the recording industry. It had already been around forever at that time.

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They inducted her! About time! pictorial.jezebel.com/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-finally-recognizes-woman-who-1821253221?

She is.

It would be for me, too, if it just contained ONE little extra word--"other"! This train don't contain no OTHER ramblers, gamblers, winkers, drinkers, stinkers, etc.